Sherry, flamenco, tapas and horses … Is there anywhere more quintessentially Spanish than Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucía? With its flamenco festival kicking off this weekend, Sorrel Downer guides us through the merriment

Spain’s capital is awash with tapas bars but how do you find the good ones amid the sea of tourist-traps? Madrid-based food writer James Blick tracks down 10 of the best, from classic bodegas to slick new dining spaces run by young chefs

Andalucía is known for sea, sun and even tapas but not, so far, its fine restaurants. Now it's hoping to take on the gastronomic powerhouses of Catalonia and the Basque Country. Chris Moss reports from Málaga

The bars of Madrid will be rammed on Saturday night as fans of the city's two football clubs watch them do battle in the Champions League final. Here, readers share their favourite bars in the Spanish capital

East of Andalucía's traditional sherry vineyards around Jerez is Montilla, where the finos and amontillados are possibly better than the better-known cousins, and hardly any tourists visit, says Fiona Dunlop

With few Catalans feeling like spending large sums on eating out, Barcelona's restaurants and bars are thinking up original ways of pulling in customers, especially the tapas bars, says Cecilia Gibbons